National Grief Awareness Day: Quotes That Will Help You Cope With Loss

National Greif Awareness Day is observed on Aug. 30 as a day to support people going through a loss to cope with it and to bring social awareness about the feelings of grief.

Angie Cartwright founded the day in 2014 to inform the public about the facts about grief and to encourage open communication on loss and bereavement. Cartwright founded the day after experiencing grief throughout her life with the loss of her sister, her husband and her mother.

As the time taken by each person to come out of a loss is different and each person finds closure in different forms, it is important not to be judgemental of a person who is grieving. "Healing can only take place when grief is not shamed, rushed, or tabooed," according to Cartwright.

On this National Grief Awareness Day, you can support a person who is going through any loss by spending time with the person and listening to his feelings.

If you are going through grief, try to seek help from a friend to whom you can talk freely. It is also important to understand that the feeling of grief is natural and there should not be any shame in seeking assistance if the pain becomes unbearable.

Here are some quotes about grief that will help you understand the condition and cope with the loss:

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1."There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and unspeakable love."- Washington Irving

2."Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."-Marcus Tullius Cicero

3."I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."-Robert Fulghum

4."Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person."-Patti Smith

5."There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

6."Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone."-Michelle Williams

7. "Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it."-Terri Irwin